temper

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(noun): A tendency to be in a certain type of mood; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
(noun): State of mind; mood.
(noun): A tendency to become angry.
(noun): Anger; a fit of anger.
(noun): Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
(noun): Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
(noun): Middle state or course; mean; medium.
(noun): The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
(noun): The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
(noun): The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
(noun): (sugar manufacture) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
(verb): To moderate or control.
(verb): To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
(verb): To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
(verb): To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
(verb): To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
(verb): (Latinism) To govern; to manage.
(verb): To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
(verb): To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage.
(verb): To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

to have a good, bad, or calm temper
He has quite a temper when dealing with salespeople.
an outburst of temper
to keep one's temper; to lose one's temper; to recover one's temper
the temper of mortar